Who is supposed to believe that he was the victim of a crime?
Well, he should quit that damn dangerous job.
That would be awesome.
That reference to what Trump said is so obvious, it must surely be deliberate trolling by Santos. I’m starting to like him.
I’d love to see him announce to the world that he’s a dem (or non-maga republican) and he wanted to prove to conservative voters that they need to start doing a much better job with who the elect since they voted for someone that lied about literally every aspect of their life. He could even take it a step further and make a list of all the horrible things republicans have slipped under the radar while everyone was too busy watching him to notice.
“And you’ll never believe what Kevin McCarthy promised me if I supported him for Speaker…!”
Who should play him is the guy who played Harold on the Red Green Show.
We’re seeing what we already knew- there is no depth to which Republicans won’t stoop, there is no principle that they stand for other than maintaining power, there is no honor in this den of vipers, and we’re living in an age where truth simply does not matter.
Except that he has pulled too many pretty shitty stunts to get away with “I was secretly a good guy the whole time!”.
Assuming he accepts that he’s doomed to ineffectiveness and never being taken seriously again, I wonder if he could extend his career by declaring himself a Democrat, caucusing and voting with the Dems, and weakening McCarthy’s hold on the GOP a little more. Dems would stop campaigning against him, at least with the virulence they’ve been, and then the GOPers would all denounce him, opening themselves up to accusations of blatant hypocrisy. It might be a funny spectacle for a year or more.
Sure, that seems likely.
Meanwhile, back in this universe…
George Santos Shows Early Signs of Tilting to the Hard Right
Through his staff hires and his public appearances with members of the House Freedom Caucus, Representative George Santos has signaled a move away from the mainstream.
On his first day in Congress, Representative George Santos of New York spent most of his time alone, isolated from his new colleagues. But by week’s end, he had found his place: alongside polarizing Republicans like Representatives Matt Gaetz of Florida and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, as well as members of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus.
As a growing number of fellow Republican representatives called for his resignation, Mr. Santos dug in further, appearing last week on “Bannon’s War Room,” the podcast of Stephen K. Bannon, a former adviser to President Donald J. Trump who was involved in the effort to overturn the 2020 election.
Mr. Santos’s views became the subject of further speculation after photographs of his voting for Mr. McCarthy appeared to show him making a symbol that the Southern Poverty Law Center associated with alt-right movements.
The man executed a long con which got him a position with a 6 figure salary, and relative immunity from prosecution.
… He is not going to side with the Party that he himself decided he could not con.
… He is not going to side with those of his Party who are calling on him to resign.
Of course he’s going to go hard right. Where else can he go? Who else wants him?
It’s all so high school. “I’ll go sit at the anarchist’s table! They’ll accept me!”
Seems natural that he would find a place with the ones most likely to believe all the paranoid conspiracy theories that explain the lies being told about him in the media.
In other “news”:
Why didn’t he talk that up on his resume? Couldn’t have hurt!
Santos would never survive as a Democrat. The Republicans will overlook anything for a fellow Republican. But the Democrats actually have standards they expect other Democrats to comply with. Look at people like Al Franken, Andrew Cuomo, John Kitzhaber, Anthony Weiner, and Eliot Spitzer.
Oh, I’m not talking about long-term survival. But if the Dems had a sense of humor, and he were feeling resentful of the lack of support from his GOP peers (refusing to support or fund him for re-election, and so on), he could simply announce his caucusing with the Dems unilaterally which would be a kind of revenge on McCarthy for not whipping up enough enthusiasm for him among the GOP. Either way, he’s dead in the water politically–I just think this would be a funny turn.
Pulling spiteful crap like that, while ignoring the real harm he has done to real human beings, is Republican humor, not Democrat humor.
DOJ: I got this.
Hopefully the DOJ won’t make this investigation too protracted a thing.
If the quality of concealment for Santos’ financial chicanery is as good as their excuses for their ‘shading the truth’, well, we may hope for a quick investigation.